SAVE THE DATE

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2013

TAKING FUNDRAISING SERIOUSLY: TIMELESS VALUES IN A WORLD OF CHANGE

NCAA Conference Center–Indianapolis, Indiana

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Nonprofit and foundation CEOs, board members, and senior staff

Philanthropists and donors

Leaders in global philanthropy

Innovators

Fundraising professionals

Philanthropic, financial and legal advisors to donors

Scholars and researchers

YOU!

2012 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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Keynote speaker (9:00 a.m.)

WENDY SPENCER
Chief Executive Officer
Corporation for National and Community Service

Luncheon keynote Speaker:

MATTHEW BISHOP
US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief, The Economist
Author, Philanthrocapitalism

LUNCH MODERATOR:
Eugene R. Tempel, Ed.D.
Founding Dean
Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy

2012 BREAKOUT SESSIONS

Exploring Tomorrow’s Donors:
Evolution, Transformation, or The New Normal?

Explore new knowledge and insights into the similarities and differences between today’s and tomorrow’s donors. In recent years the nonprofit sector has focused on expanding the donor base to include women, diverse communities, and the next generation. How will these donors change philanthropy? Will technology, new ways of thinking and talking about philanthropy, and increasing professionalization redefine philanthropy? Learn how anticipating and understanding trends and new directions in giving can result in more effective fundraising.

PANELISTS

Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies
Indiana University - Purdue University
Indianapolis
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Allison Schnable
Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University
Lake Dissertation Doctoral Fellow

Kevin B. Shaw
Board Member, Social Venture Partners International

Alandra Washington, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Dwight F. Burlingame, Ph.D. (MODERATOR)
Director of Academic Programs
Professor of Philanthropic Studies
The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University

Growing Philanthropy in the Global Community

Interest in international philanthropy is growing domestically and in countries around the world. What will it take for philanthropy to flourish globally? Can examining philanthropy across nations create understanding and momentum for philanthropy in individual countries and cultures? What role do universities play in growing philanthropy globally? Within the United States, individuals are increasingly involved in charitable activities that reach beyond national borders.  How will this transform philanthropy nationally and internationally?

PANELISTS

Carol Adelman
Director, Hudson Institute’s
Center for Global Prosperity
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Jacqueline Butcher, Ph.D.
Director, Centro de Investigación y
Estudios sobre Sociedad Civil, A.C.
Technológico de Monterrey
Campus Ciudad de México
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Travis Carley
Corporate Vice President
CCS

Giuliana Gemelli, Ph.D.
Professor of History and Scientific Cultural
Institutions, University of Bologna
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Darius Mans, Ph.D.
CEO and President, Africare

Barbara Ibrahim, Ph.D. (MODERATOR)
Director, Gerhart Center for Philanthropy &
Civic Engagement, American University in Cairo

René Bekkers, Ph.D.
Center for Philanthropic Studies at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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The Impact of Technology on Donors and Fundraising

Technology is transforming philanthropy by creating new donors, expanding fundraising opportunities, and providing more transparency and accountability.  How is technology altering the ways donors connect with causes? How are online giving and mobile technology changing donor engagement?  What is the future of social giving startups and crowd sourcing?  How are donors and nonprofits tapping into existing online communities to encourage philanthropy?  Explore the challenges and limitations of technological progress in philanthropic engagement and how its impact can be measured.

PANELISTS

Katya Andresen
Chief Strategy Officer, Network for Good

Steven Lawrence
Director of Research, Foundation Center

Chuck Longfield
Chief Scientist, Blackbaud

Robert Ottenhoff
President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Disaster Philanthropy
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Kevin Salwen (MODERATOR)
Author and Philanthropist

Steven Lawrence
Foundation Center

QUESTIONS?

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SPONSORSHIP INFORMATION

The Center on Philanthropy has convened symposia annually for the past 25 years, engaging leaders and diverse stakeholders from academic institutions, foundations, business, nonprofits and fundraising professionals in discussion to deepen the understanding of the practice of philanthropy, and to explore the emerging trends and forces driving the sector forward.

As a sponsor of the Center’s 25th Symposium, you will receive valuable exposure to a variety of top philanthropic organizations represented by the keynote speakers, panelists and participants who attend the symposium each year.

Your sponsorship will help provide important, valuable resources to practitioners, donors, and scholars that equip them with the knowledge on philanthropy and the charitable sector they need to create and promote lasting change.

If you are interested in partnering with us, or would like additional information about sponsorship and benefits, please contact Sean Dunlavy at sdunlavy@iupui.edu or (317) 278-8920.

Carol Adelman
Dr. Carol Adelman directs Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity, publishing the Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances, the sole comprehensive guide to all private giving to the developing world.

She writes and speaks on global philanthropy, economic development, foreign aid, and international health. Publishing in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, and International Herald Tribune, she has edited a book, International Regulation: New Rules in a Changing World Order. As Assistant Administrator of USAID from 1988 to 1993, she ran aid programs in Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Dr. Adelman served as Vice Chair of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid to USAID and Vice Chair of the U.S. Government HELP Commission, a bipartisan appointed commission to reform foreign aid.

She is past president of Capital Partners for Education, a Washington, DC charity that provides scholarships and mentors to low income children. Dr. Adelman is a recipient of the Heloise Waislitz Visiting Fellowship in Philanthropy at the Asia Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. Her doctorate and master’s in public health are from Johns Hopkins University and master’s degree in Foreign Service is from Georgetown University.

Ellen K. Annala
President and CEO, United Way of Central Indiana.

In 1998, Ellen K. Annala became the first female ever to lead United Way of Central Indiana, a then 80-year-old organization.

Born and raised in Arizona, Annala earned an undergraduate degree in religion and philosophy and her master's in public administration.

Having served the nonprofit sector for more than four decades, Annala has devoted 21 of those years to United Way. She was recruited to head up United Way's evaluation and agency service arm. She now leads the multi-county organization which, in 2011, invested more than $50 million in the community and for the past two years was named one of 70 Hoosier companies to earn the Best Places to Work in Indiana distinction.

Under Annala's tenure, United Way has committed to a new mission and priorities, dramatically expanded funds under its management, and put United Way at the forefront of devoting greater resources to improving conditions for children and families.

First through launching a community collaborative – Success By 6 – to promote early learning, and then by adopting new priorities, United Way under Annala’s leadership is becoming known for making tomorrow a better place by helping children today. 

Specifically, Annala’s leadership has resulted in collaborative strategies to increase the readiness of children starting school and the number of children performing at grade level by sixth grade, as part of the broader community goal to improve the high school graduation rate.

She has twice been named to the area's Most Influential Women IBJ list of women who wield power and influence in their respective careers. In 2009 she was honored with Girls Inc.'s Touchstone award for inspiring girls to be strong, smart and bold. And, in 2011 Annala was named one of 10 Torchbearers at the Indiana Commission on Women's Salute to Women event.

Katya Andresen
Katya is Chief Operating and Chief Strategy Officer of Network for Good and a well-known speaker, author and blogger (www.nonprofitmarketingblog.com) about social enterprise, public-private partnerships, fundraising, marketing, media relations and communications. She serves as an adjunct professor of communications at American University’s Key Executive Program and Vice Chair of the board of NTEN. Katya has trained thousands of causes in effective engagement and her social good campaigns have won national and international awards. She is the author of the book, Robin Hood Marketing: Stealing Corporate Savvy to Sell Just Causes and was featured in Nine Minds of Marketing. Fundraising Success Magazine named her 2007’s Fundraising Professional of the Year. Before joining Network for Good, she was Senior Vice President of Sutton Group, a social marketing and communications firm and a cause marketing consultant in Eastern Europe. She also worked for CARE International. Katya traces her passion for good causes to the enormous social need she witnessed as a journalist prior to her work in the non-profit sector. She was a foreign correspondent for Reuters News and Television in Asia and for Associated Press and US newspapers in Africa.

Dr. René H.F.P. Bekkers
Director of Research, Center for Philanthropic Studies at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Dr. René H.F.P. Bekkers is Director of Research at the Center for Philanthropic Studies at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He studied sociology and philosophy in Nijmegen and obtained a PhD in Utrecht in 2004, for which he received the 2005 Gabriel Rudney Award for best dissertation from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA). His research on prosocial behavior takes a multidisciplinary perspective on philanthropy, volunteering, blood donation and helping behavior. Since 2000, he is on the design team of the Giving in the Netherlands Panel Survey. Bekkers is an internationally renowned expert in the sociology and psychology of altruism and survey design and published in international scientific journals in a variety of social science disciplines. His current research focuses on determinants and consequences of charitable giving and volunteering.

Matthew Bishop
Matthew Bishop is the US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist. Mr. Bishop was previously the magazine's London-based Business Editor.

He is the author of several books, including most recently an e-book, "In Gold We Trust? The Future of Money in an Age of Uncertainty", with Michael Green. "The Road from Ruin" (also with Green), about how to improve capitalism following the crash of 2008 and subsequent economic downturn, was published in 2010.

"Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World", his previous book (also with Green), was described as "the definitive guide to a new generation of philanthropists who take an entrepreneurial approach to solving big problems", by New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mr. Bishop is also the author of "Essential Economics", the official Economist guide to economics.

Mr. Bishop is the author of several of The Economist's special report supplements, including most recently The Great Mismatch, about the future of jobs; A Bigger World, which examines the opportunities and challenges of the rise of emerging economies and firms; and The Business of Giving, which looks at the industrial revolution taking place in philanthropy. He has served as an advisor to the United Nations International Year of Microcredit 2005, and as chairman of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Philanthropy and Social Investment.

Dwight Burligame
Dwight F. Burlingame, Ph.D., is Director of Academic Programs, Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, and Professor of  Philanthropic Studies and Public Affairs.

He holds degrees from Moorhead State University, the University of Illinois and Florida State University.  He is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE).  He is active in the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Research Council and of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA ).   He  completed a 6-year term in 2010 as an editor of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly(NVSQ), the official journal of ARNOVA.  He also is co-editor of the Philanthropic and Nonprofit Studies book series for the Indiana University Press.

Dr. Burlingame has authored and co-authored ten books, over 50 articles and over 100 book reviews.  He is the editor of Philanthropy in America: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia.

Dr. Burlingame is active in the nonprofit community as a board member and volunteer, a frequent speaker, consultant, and author on topics relating to philanthropy, corporate citizenship, nonprofit organizations, libraries, and development.

Dr. Jacqueline Butcher
Dr. Jacqueline Butcher served as the President of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Center for Philanthropy (Centro Mexicano para la Filantropía) from 2006 to 2010, and was President of the International Society for Third Sector Research from 2007 to 2008. Dr. Butcher holds a B.Sc. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and also Master’s and Doctoral degrees in Human Development from the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her research is concerned with volunteering and citizen participation. She belongs to the Editorial Board of Prometeo and Voluntas and is a member of the Technical Expert Group for the Manual on the Measurement of Volunteer Work assembled by the International Labor Organization and the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies. She was a civil society advisor and an expert of volunteerism in Latin America for United Nations’ first State of the World’s Volunteerism Report in 2011. She has been widely published; her most important publication is Mexican Solidarity: Citizen Participation and Volunteering, a volume that she edited in both English and Spanish and which presents a nationwide study of the state of volunteerism and citizen participation in Mexico. She is the current Director of the Centro de Investigación y Estudios sobre Sociedad Civil (Center for Civil Society Research and Studies) at the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico City campus.

Travis Carley
Travis is honored to have the opportunity to work with the men and women that make it their life’s work to change the world for the better. It is a privilege to help extraordinary organizations fund their life-changing missions every day.

Travis joined CCS in 2002. Since then, he has assisted clients with capital campaigns, planning studies, custom learning programs and provided interim executive leadership. Travis’ areas of expertise include development training and custom learning, development audits and assessments, major gifts, international fundraising and multi-unit campaign planning and management.

A partial list of clients that Travis has served include: Advocate Charitable Foundation, Park Ridge, IL; Feeding America, Chicago, IL; Lions Clubs International Foundation, Oak Brook, IL; Diocese of Biloxi, MS; Diocese of Winona, MN; Diocese of St. Catharines, ON; Novi Public Library, MI; and St. Pius X Catholic Church, Mobile, AL.

Travis assisted Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) with Campaign SightFirst II, raising more than $200 million for their efforts against preventable and reversible blindness. His achievements during this campaign include: managing more than 1,400 volunteers throughout Europe; helping to secure six-figure government and foundation gifts; and assisting the Lions of Europe to raise more than $40.7 million toward their $32 million goal.

Travis also served as the Interim Chief Development Manager for LCIF. He provided day-to-day executive leadership for the development efforts of Lions’ $330 million foundation while beginning implementation of a four-year development plan, including the recruitment and training of a 1,000 member global volunteer team.

He also worked with Feeding America on its Campaign Resource Center (CRC). The CRC provided Feeding America’s 202 member food banks with a wide range of capacity-building services: development audits; case development, planning and major gift program development services; a fundraising help line as well as a 30+ course custom learning curriculum.

Travis is currently working with Advocate Charitable Foundation on a Capacity and Growth Study.

Travis resides in Chicago, Illinois. He is a member of the Chicago chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals and serves on the board of Journeys Within Our Community, a non-profit organization working in Southeast Asia to improve living conditions in local communities.
 

Dr. Giuliana Gemelli
Giuliana Gemelli is Professor of Contemporary History and History  of  Philanthropy at the university of Bologna. She is founder President of the International Research Center PHaSI Philanthropy and Social Innovation and Director of the PhD program Global  Studies in  Philanthropy. She is a member of  the steering Committee of the Adriano Olivetti  foundation and president of  the  nonprofit  Association GrandeGiu for Love and  Care. She is also  editor of the  International  Journal  Giving Thematic Issues in  Philanthropy  and Social  innovation  and has extensively written on  the history  of philanthropy in  Europe  and the US. Among the publications the Ford Foundation and Europe (1950’s-1970’s): Cross-Fertilization of Learning in Social Sciences and Management, Brussels, PIE, 1998, 490 pp. (curator and author) “The Unacceptables”. American Foundations and the Refugee Scholars Between the Two Wars and After, P.I.E - Peter Lang, Bern, New York, Brussels, 2000 (curator and author) American foundations and large-scale research: construction and transfer of knowledge, Bologna CLUEB, 2001, (curator and author) In collaboration with Roy. Macleod,  American Foundations in Europe. Grant Giving Policies, Cultural Diplomacy and transAtlantic Relations, 1920-1980, Brussels, Peter Lang, 2003. in collaboration Roy MacLeod,  American Foundations in Europe. The Role of the program Officers in Historical Perspective, special issue of “Minerva” Vol.XLI, number 2, 2003, pp. 95-99.

Barbara Ibrahim
Barbara Lethem Ibrahim is founding director of the John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement, established in 2006 at the American University in Cairo. Previously she served as Regional Director for West Asia and North Africa of the Population Council, and as a program officer for Urban Poverty at the Ford Foundation. She is a global migrant, born and educated in the United States, studied in Beirut and moved to Egypt with her husband where she has lived and worked since 1975. Her M.A. in sociology is from the American University of Beirut and Ph.D. from Indiana University. A recent book is Charity to Social Change: Trends in Arab Philanthropy, published in  English and Arabic, 2008. Other publications are on youth activism in Egypt, adolescent survey research in multiple countries, and the roles of higher education in civic transformations. She held visiting scholar residencies at the Center for the Study of Philanthropy, City University of New York; the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University; and the Center on Philanthropy, Indiana University.  In 1999 she was inducted into the International Educators’ Hall of Fame and received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies in 2003.

Steven Lawrence
Steven Lawrence joined the Foundation Center’s research staff in 1991 and currently serves as director of research. Steven is author and editor of numerous reports on national, regional, and issue-focused trends in the field of philanthropy, among them Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates and Social Justice Grantmaking. He currently serves on the Giving USA advisory committee and the board of directors of Funders for LGBTQ Issues.

Les Lenkowsky
Dr. Leslie Lenkowsky is Professor of Public Affairs and Philanthropic Studies in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and liaison for Bloomington programs for the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.  He teaches courses on philanthropy, civil society, social entrepreneurship and public policy and is a regular contributor to The Chronicle of Philanthropy. 

Dr. Lenkowsky returned to the university in January 2004 after stepping down as chief executive officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a position to which he was appointed by President George W. Bush in October 2001.

Before joining the Bush Administration, Dr. Lenkowsky was professor of philanthropic studies and public policy at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis. From1990 to 1997, he served as president of the Hudson Institute, an internationally renowned public policy research institute.  Dr. Lenkowsky has also served as president of the Institute for Educational Affairs, deputy director of the United States Information Agency, research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and research director at the Smith Richardson Foundation.  He is a fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration.

A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, Dr. Lenkowsky received his doctorate from Harvard University.

Charles L. Longfield, Chief Scientist
Chuck Longfield has served as our Chief Scientist since January 2007 and is the founder of Target Software, Inc. and Target Analysis Group, Inc., Blackbaud companies.  Mr. Longfield has extensive experience designing and implementing national as well as international constituency databases, and addressing the information needs at many of the world’s largest not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Longfield is certified to teach secondary school mathematics and, prior to founding the Target companies in 1992, taught math to middle and high school students.  Mr. Longfield is also Fundraising Success Magazine’s 2007 Fundraising Professional of the Year recipient for Lifetime Achievement in an agency.  He holds a B.A. in Mathematics and a M.Ed. from Harvard University, and has over 25 years of experience helping not-for-profits automate their fundraising operations.

Darius Mans
Dr. Darius Mans is President and CEO of Africare.  Prior to joining Africare, Dr. Mans served as Acting Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Dr. Mans has over 30 years of development experience with a major focus on African countries.  Before joining MCC, Dr. Mans held various positions at the World Bank including Director of the World Bank Institute (WBI) in Washington, DC and as the World Bank’s Country Director in Mozambique.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Mans served as an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland.  Dr. Mans holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Mathematics from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan where he was born. A long-time resident of Washington D.C., he is married and the father of three children.

Bob Ottenhoff
Bob Ottenhoff is the President and CEO of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, a new organization helping to make giving to disaster relief more effective.  He previously was the president and ceo of GuideStar, where he helped to build a sustainable business model and create information services for over 10 million users.  He has 25 years of management experience in public broadcasting and high-tech companies, including 9 years as chief operating officer of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). He currently serves on the board of Vision TV, Grameen Foundation USA, Link TV,  and Write on Sports, and he serves on the advisory committee of the Netherlands-America Foundation. He previously served on the board of the AAFRC Trust for Philanthropy and the e-Philanthropy Foundation. Bob holds a bachelor’s degree from Calvin College and a master's degree in planning from Rutgers University. He is a sought-after writer and speaker on nonprofit and philanthropic issues, and he has been frequently quoted in television, radio and leading publications such as the New York Times, Chronicle of Philanthropy, Wall Street Journal and Forbes.

Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm
Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm is Professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies at IUPUI. He conducts empirical research on prosocial behavior. His recent work includes articles about the intergenerational transmission of generosity, experiences of family instability/low income during adolescence and subsequent giving/volunteering in young adulthood, empathic concern and moral principles as correlates of prosocial behavior, and the relationship between religious affiliation and giving to organizations that help people with basic needs. This work is published in a wide variety of journals such as the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Adolescence, Journal of Public Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Social Psychology Quarterly, and Nashim. His current research projects are about the transmission of generosity from parents to children, taxes and giving, the principle of care, and experiments to measure altruistic motivation. His earlier prosocial behavior research dealt with voter support for public assistance and help given within the family. He was the Founding Director of the ongoing Center on Philanthropy Panel Study, the United States’ authoritative family-level data on charitable giving. Professor Ottoni-Wilhelm earned his Ph.D. in Economics from NYU.
 

Patrick Rooney
Patrick M. Rooney is Executive Director of the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, a leading academic center dedicated to increasing the understanding of philanthropy and improving its practice worldwide.

A nationally recognized expert on philanthropy and charitable giving, Dr. Rooney speaks frequently across the country on issues related to philanthropy and management of nonprofit organizations and has been quoted by national news media outlets such as PBS’s Nightly Business Report, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and USA Today.

Dr. Rooney previously served as the Center’s Chief Operating Officer and served as the Director of Research from 1999 to 2008. Dr. Rooney also led the Center’s ongoing research projects, including the research and writing for Giving USA, which is produced by Giving USA Foundation. He has served as a board or committee member for several nonprofit organizations, including the Techpoint Foundation, the Rollins College Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership Center, United Way of Central Indiana Strategic Planning Committee and the Children’s Bureau of Indianapolis.

A professor of Economics and Philanthropic Studies at IUPUI and a member of the graduate school faculty at Indiana University, Dr. Rooney is a prolific researcher with an extensive body of published research. He earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Notre Dame and a Certificate of Management Development at Harvard University.

Kevin Salwen
Author of The Power of Half: One Family’s Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back

Kevin was a reporter and editor at the Wall Street Journal from 1981 to 2000. At the nation’s largest newspaper, Kevin helped cover two presidential administrations, wrote two columns and launched two publications. After leaving the paper, Kevin built several media companies and worked with such organizations as the U.S. Olympic Committee and Yahoo!

A native of Brooklyn, Kevin serves on the boards of Habitat for Humanity in Atlanta and Year Up Atlanta. He has thrown out the first ball at a New York Mets game, flown on Air Force One and traveled on NASA’s zero-gravity aircraft, the “vomit comet.”

In 2006, at the urging of his then-14-year-old daughter Hannah, Kevin, his wife and their two teens embarked on a family philanthropic project to help villagers in Africa build a better future for themselves and their children. Kevin spends much of his energy encouraging Americans to recognize that they can build more powerful relationships through generosity and service. 

The story of The Power of Half has been featured in The New York Times, CBS Sunday Morning, The View, People and Oprah magazines and other media outlets.

Allison Schnable
Allison Schnable is a Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology Department at Princeton University with interests in culture, globalization, and nonprofit organizations. Her dissertation examines the 10,000 new international aid organizations founded by Americans since 1990.  Using regression analysis, content analysis, and qualitative case studies, the dissertation accounts for the growth of these organizations and makes sense of the different institutional models these voluntary entrepreneurs use.   A native of East Lansing, Michigan, Schnable holds a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.A. from the University of Chicago.  Before coming to Princeton, Schnable served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal and was a Presidential Management Fellow with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in Chicago.  She is the winner of the 2012 Lake Institute Dissertation Fellowship.

Kevin B. Shaw
Kevin Shaw serves on the national board of Social Venture Partners International (SVPI). SVPI is a network of 2300 partners working through 27 member organizations. They are engaged in venture philanthropy and have invested in excess of $46 million in 518 local non-profits. He is past President of Cleveland Social Venture Partners and has been active on the Boards of Near West Theatre and Judson Services.

In the private sector, Kevin became Chairman of Fathom in 2007. Kevin is also co-founder of PromiseONE, a firm that invests in private businesses. Prior to forming PromiseONE, Kevin served as President/CEO of NCS Healthcare, a publicly traded institutional pharmacy. He co-founded NCS in 1986, led its public offering and ran the company until its sale in 2003. Prior to NCS, he was employed by McKinsey & Company and Owens Corning Fiberglas. He serves on the board of Fathom, Federal Process Company, and several other private companies. Kevin is a graduate of Harvard College and Stanford Graduate School of Business (MBA).

Wendy Spencer
Wendy Spencer took office on April 9, 2012 as the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Wendy understands firsthand the needs of local communities and has a proven track record of nearly three decades in volunteer management and administration.

Wendy has held management positions in the private sector, state government, and in major nonprofit organizations. These include serving as campaign director of United Way of Big Bend, Director of the Florida Park Service, and for the past eight years, as Chief Executive Officer of the Florida Governor’s Commission on Volunteerism and Community, commonly known as Volunteer Florida.

As head of Volunteer Florida, a bipartisan, gubernatorial appointed commission, Wendy managed between $18 million and $23 million in federal, state, and local grants each year. Also, as the official statewide coordinating agency in times of disasters, the commission organizes volunteers in times of need.

During Florida's record-breaking 2004 and 2005 hurricane seasons, Volunteer Florida coordinated more than 252,000 volunteers, as well as donated items totaling more than $85 million in value, which was the largest mobilization of volunteers in the history of U.S. natural disasters at that time. Wendy was awarded the coveted 2005 Governor’s Award by Governor Jeb Bush for her work in leading this effort.

A graduate of Valdosta State University, Wendy is recognized by her peers for leadership in the volunteer sector. Wendy was elected nationwide as chairman of the Association of State Service Commissions, comprised of 54 state service commissions linked to governors’ offices. In 2006, President George W. Bush appointed Wendy to the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation where she served with 24 other leading volunteer advocates as an “Ambassador of Service” promoting a culture of citizenship and volunteer service nationwide.

Gene Tempel
Founding Dean,
Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy
Gene Tempel is a nationally recognized expert in the study and practice of philanthropy and nonprofit management.

His career includes more than two decades in higher education administration, fundraising, and teaching.  For 11 of those years, he directed the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy, a leading national resource for nonprofit education, research, training, and public service programs.  He is a member of several boards, past chair of the Indiana Commission on Community Service and Volunteerism, the first elected president of the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council, and a member of INDEPENDENT SECTOR’s Expert Advisory Panel that created national guidelines for nonprofit governance and ethical behavior. 

He is the author and co-author of several works in the field and has won numerous awards.  He earned his bachelor’s degree from St. Benedict College, and his M.A. and Ed.D. from Indiana University. He also holds the Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) professional designation.

Alandra L. Washington
Deputy Director
Family Economic Security and Education and Learning teams
W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Alandra supports the vice president for programs in providing overall coordination of the teams’ programming efforts in support of the Foundation’s mission. She is responsible for grantmaking management and administration, and assists the vice president in providing day-to-day management and oversight of the teams’ human, technical, and financial resources. In addition, Alandra manages a portfolio focused on philanthropic engagement and community philanthropy.

Alandra has over 15 years of experience managing national initiatives and leading nonprofit and philanthropic organizations. She brings extensive experience and knowledge in organizing communities for comprehensive change initiatives that include improving economic security of low-income families, community economic development, educational outcomes and capacity building and strategy development for non-profit organizations. Alandra has provided thought leadership and research in the areas of parental involvement in education, philanthropic engagement, and place-based change initiatives. Alandra earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration, and a master’s degree in public policy and administration, from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She holds a doctorate degree in educational leadership and organizational analysis from Western Michigan University.